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Yoga states that diseases, disorders and ailments are the result of faulty ways of living, bad habits, lack of proper knowledge of things related to individual's life, and improper food. The diseases are thus the resultant state of a short or prolonged malfunctioning of the body system. The yogic process of treatment comprises three steps: (i) Proper diet, (ii) Proper yoga practice, and (iii)Proper knowledge of things which concern the life of an individual. The book, based on the author's successful experience of treating several hundreds of patients suffering from common, chronic diseases, contains a comprehensive and illustrated step-by-step guide to better health through yoga and is complete with diet charts. The book discusses the background, nature and cause of each disease, medical and yogic treatments, diet and the yogic path to health. Yoga's holistic approach to therapy and the effectiveness of yogic methods in establishing good health are explained herein. Learn-it-Yourself Books are specially designed to enable the readers to learn useful skills and techniques, and obtain sound, authoritative information of value in their professional, family and personal lives. The subjects of these books have been selected on the criterion of their utility for the large number of readers. The books are comprehensive and, in some cases, are designed as workbooks to serve the readers as self-learning guides. This is an important book because it for the first time deals with the yogic cures for various human diseases in such detail. The author who is the founder-director of the Institute of Yoga at Patna and Washington has wide experience in this particular aspect of yogic culture. He has treated many at his institute, and written a number of books on yoga. In this book he discusses diseases ranging from Indigestion to Arthritis and Heart Ailments to Neck & Spinal Pain and suggests suitable cures for them through the practice of yoga.